On Thursday, 27 September at 5 p.m. Anna Škodenko’s personal exhibition will be opened in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House.

Škodenko’s exhibition doesn’t have a literal title and she replaces it in texts with the symbol []. In the graphical materials accompanying the exhibition, the title is denoted by the pattern called the café wall illusion (seen above). Škodenko’s works are always conceptual but they are still rooted in an aesthetic experience. However, over the years she has continuously distanced herself from her original medium of painting.

The artist has described the exhibition as follows: “A goes to place X. There are B, C, D, etc. Then A goes to X′ and then to X′′. Nothing is really so linear. Nothings is limited to letters and vectors. The space can be traversed and it probably contains something to see. Coming into contact with B-s, C-s and D-s, however, is not guaranteed.”

Anna Škodenko (b 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist who has graduated from the Painting Department of the Estonian Academy of Arts (2009), complemented her studies at the Chelsea College of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and has completed the master’s programme at the Glasgow School of Arts (2017). She has earlier been awarded the Eduard Wiiralt prize (2016) and this spring she shared the grand prize of Köler Prize with Tanja Muravskaja. This is her first exhibition in Tartu.